Welcome to Lower Shaw Farm

We hope you find something that will entice you to come and explore, experience, and enjoy life down on this farm.

Lower Shaw Farm offers vegetarian weekend breaks and activity holidays for individuals, groups, and families. This year, our programme includes, yoga and massage, women’s wellbeing, a music and song-writing weekend, living willow structures for the garden, and willow basket and felt making. There is a family bushcraft camp, and a juggling, poi, and circus skills holiday. Also on offer are a creative writing course; a literature festival; an organic healthy cookery course; and Easter, Summer and Autumn child-friendly activity holidays. There are opportunities for volunteering in the organic garden. The farm is available for hire by groups and conference organisers.

Once a dairy farm deep in rural North Wiltshire and home to seventy black and white cows, Lower Shaw Farm now has another life: as a three-acre oasis in an area of 1980s development. The farm has kept a character and atmosphere of its own. It is an environmentally friendly place, with organic vegetable, herb, and flower gardens, many native shrubs and trees, living willow structures, ponds, hens, ducks, sheep, an outdoor cooking area with clay oven, and play areas both for children and adults.

The farm outbuildings have been converted into meeting rooms, workshops, and simple accommodation. This includes chalets, caravans, and farmhouse rooms, which comprise single, double, and shared bedrooms. Full vegetarian board is provided and we can cater for special diets. The price includes all meals, accommodation, and tuition.

Facilities are basic but homely and generally user-friendly for all people.

We like to work and play, make discoveries and make friends, be serious and also frolic. We like organic and local food and enjoy good talk, or music-making and storytelling round the fire in the yard, by the woodstove, or in the Circle Garden. We reckon that today’s stranger is tomorrow’s friend and that life is for learning at Lower Shaw Farm!

It is a welcoming place, whose outer ramshackle appearance masks an inner order and warmth. Sort of wild, welcoming, and very nice!

Lower Shaw Farm is run by a community of five, with a network of helpers, local, national, and international. We hope that you find a reason to visit us, and look forward to welcoming you!